A man was convicted in Connecticut Thursday of murdering a woman and her two daughters in a gruesome 2007 home invasion. He faces a possible death sentence. NBC’s Brian Williams reports.

Crime and courts

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BRIAN WILLIAMS, anchor:found guilty today on 17 charges related to a home invasion robbery and murder that shocked the entire country.
Joshua Komisarjevsky
faces a possible death sentence for the '07 crime. He was convicted of breaking into the
Cheshire
,
Connecticut
, home of Dr.
William Petit
, sexually assaulting his wife, two daughters, tying them down, setting the house on fire in what was the most awful crime a lot of people can remember. Mother and both daughters died of smoke inhalation.
Komisarjevsky
's accomplice was also convicted and is now on death row.